Re: apt-get - resuming?
If i do an 'apt-get source' of some package.. but i get disconnected before it can complete, then will it resume when i reconnect ? or will it restart the whole download ? It sure does! Apt-get is amazing! I've been disconnected from the server several times during an install of some 50 plus packages. I'd just issue the same command on the command line and apt-get not only starts off at the package that failed to complete download, it starts in the middle of the download. So if I got say 90% of the package already downloaded, it picks up at 90% where it left off! Not only that, I had downloaded a .deb of the latest gphoto (via ftp) from unstable and tried to install it, but dpkg complained about two dependancies. So I tried to use apt-get install to install the missing packages, but there were some circular dependancies so I had to use -F to 'force' it. Not only did that work, but apt then went and finished the install of gphoto for me! Let's see you do that with RPM! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
sound card is off line
I installed the helix gnome package from the helixcode site as an upgrade to the gnome package that came with debian potato. I won't say that it has exactly broken things, but things have gotten weird. In particular my sound card no longer works, launching XMMS or Realplayer gives the error message that the sound card is not available or in use. How do I fix this? If I have to how do I downgrade back to the gnome setup from potato? But can I keep the newer version of sawfish? Thanks! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
gphoto, gimp-print
I'm thinking of getting a better digi-cam. I now have an Olympus D340R that works very nicely under gphoto. I'd like to get a 2 or 3 mega pixel camera with a zoom lens. I'm considering the Nikon coolpix 800, 880, 950 or 990 and the olympus D490, C2020, C3000 , C3030 or C3040 models. The olympus D450 model is listed as working under gphoto and so is the D3000 (think they meant C3000) so with luck the other models mentioned should work as well. The Nikon coolpix 950 and 800 models are listed so maybe the others are as well. Can anyone confirm which of these cameras will work under gphoto? Also what is happening to gphoto? Seems like the web site hasn't been updated in almost a year and the download link for the latest sw is broken. Hope development is continuing. Also I have downloaded the printer module for gimp-print from their website to use an Epson photo-750 printer. Any advise on how to add an entry to printcap for this (printing through LPD). I currently have an HP LJIIID running as lp (lp0?) and will either add the epson on a second printer port, or have it share the one with the LJ via an AB switch. I understand that the linux LP drivers don't use interrupts so I could share an interrupt level between two printer cards right? Thanks for any help! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: re cdrw
I've had my cdrw drive for a while, I used it under slink. I guess the standard Debian kernels are a little different now than under slink, or I just took some information in the CDR howto a little to verbatium. Anyway I have always built my own kernels with only what I needed in them and have only used the stock kernel for the initial installation. I do build my kernels with many devices in modules. So yes, I stand corrected, however there is nothing wrong with re-building the kernel to suit your needs. Another reason I build my own is to use a later kernel than currently available as a .deb image. --- David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Kenneth Scharf wrote: You must re-compile your kernel. You also need to REMOVE ide cdrom support, because the scsi emulation will replace the ide cdrom driver. This is needed because CDRECORD only uses scsi protocol. You will then access the cdrom as /dev/scd0. In my computer I have a cdrw drive AND a real scsi cd rom drive. The cdrom drive is now /dev/scd0 and the scsi cd rom drive is /dev/scd1. (YMMV, might depend on the order you load modules). You do _not_ need to recompile the kernel. The stock debian kernel is perfectly capable of running the ide-scsi as a module. The only tricky part is that you have to reserve the cd writer. This is done using the append statement as shown in the cd-writing howto. Couldn't be easier and doesn't require recompiling the kernel. dar = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
re cdrw
You can put the cdrw drive as the master on the secondary channel, and (if you want) put the old cd rom drive as the slave. However unless you want to copy cd's there is really no reason to even keep your old cd rom drive, just use the cdrw as your cd rom drive, most of them are as fast enough in read. You will need to re-compile your kernel to include scsi emulation. You will remove ide cd rom support from the kernel (no fooling!). You now access the cd rom drives as if they were scsi drives (ie /dev/scd0 ) because the scsi emulation replaces the ide cd rom driver. This is necessary because cdrecord ONLY works with scsi protocol. (Don't rasie the bridge, lower the river!) = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
re cdrw
You must re-compile your kernel. You also need to REMOVE ide cdrom support, because the scsi emulation will replace the ide cdrom driver. This is needed because CDRECORD only uses scsi protocol. You will then access the cdrom as /dev/scd0. In my computer I have a cdrw drive AND a real scsi cd rom drive. The cdrom drive is now /dev/scd0 and the scsi cd rom drive is /dev/scd1. (YMMV, might depend on the order you load modules). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Teac CDR-drive
Has anyone tried using the Teac CDW58E 8x8x32 ide cdrw drive with xcdroast or cdrecord? Compusa has them this week for $99. It appears that other Teac IDE drives work under linux (their new 10x8x32 is listed). Thanks for any advise. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
sparc boxes
I've noticed that older sparc boxes are going for reasonable prices on ebay. I've been running Debian on Intel HW for sometime now, and would like to hack on some Risc equipment, maybe some of the older sparc equipment would play well (and Debian runs on it). Problem is I know nothing about Sun equipment and don't know what to look for and what to avoid. Can anyone give me some advise here? Also which of the sparc models are 64 bit (don't think any of them have hit ebay yet?). Thanks. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/
netscape 4.72 problems with gnome
All of a sudden Netscape Communicator 4.72 is taking a long time to 'start', and it seems to lock up all of gnome as well. After a few minutes the home page opens and everything else works. While Netscape is 'initializing' the mouse cursor moves, but anything on the desktop that I click on does not respond. I can switch to another vterm and kill netscape, at which point gnome becomes alive again. This behavior just started, I haven't upgraded anything for some time. (VIRUS?). Maybe I should un-install netscape and re-install 4.75. Mozilla (M15) works, but is about %50 slowler than netscape.
rm to mp3?
Does anyone know how to convert a .rm file to an mp3 format? I have downloaded several real audio .rm files (I can play them on the linux realplayer) but I would like to convert them to mp3 format. Any ideas? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
ftape woes
I compiled ftape into my kernel (actually as a module). I have an Eagle TR-3 type drive on my floppy controller which is the on-board unit (can handle 2.8 mb floppies). The ftmt status command never completes, taring a backup to the tape drive doesn't work either. What happens is that the tape moves 3 or four times and stops. After a long while it fails with 'io error' or 'write error'. The tape drive is factory jumpered, and exists with both a 3.5 (A:) and 5.25 (B) floppy disk drives. The same tape drive was working fine with the same setup (on a different computer) under windows with the windows software (so I believe the drive is ok). Has anyone else got ftape (2.2.14 kernel source) to work with a similar drive? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
HP Postsript printer
I just upgraded my HP LJIIID to native postscript via a plug in cartridge. How do I configure Magic Filter so I now print natively in Postscript (I was using gs to handle the ps to pcl conversion before)? Thanks! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
mp3-encoder
There has been some discussion about this as part of the recent 'flame war' about no-free. In short, due to patents covering mp3 encoding debian will NOT have any mp3-encoder software in the distro. It could be put in non-us IF a site could be found in a country that thumbed it's nose at software patents. Then operators of mirrors in other countries would have to watch what they mirrored. However you can still find tarballs of lame and bladeenc on the net and install them yourself. They may be listed in tucows or freshmeat. Bladeenc is faster but not as high quality as lame (YMMV). I have been using bladeenc, but switched to lame for low bitrate encodings. Is there no mp3-encoder in Debian ? dietmar = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
compatible sound cards
Does anyone know if either of the following PCI sound cards are supported in Potato? Sound Blaster PCI128 model CT4700 Creative-Ensoniq model ES1370 / ES1371 Thanks for any feedback. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
Transmeta cpu
As some of you may know there exists an instruction in most Pentium class cpus that returns a character string which identifies the maker of the chip. For example an Intel cpu returns Genuine Intel, Amd cpu's return Authentic AMD. Cyrix cpu's return Cyrix Instead. Note that the string is always 13 characters long. So what ID string will the Transmeta return? If they havn't figured this out yet might I suggest the following: Penguin Power after Linus? (Note, also 13 characters). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Sound Question
1) after using the 'pnpdump' how do I save it to the /etc/isapnp.conf. Easy way is to (as root) vi pnpdump edit changes w /etc/isapnp.conf q 2) Where do I uncomment the (ACT Y) command? I didnt see it. There is one of these lines per section. It's there, if needed in vi use the '/' command to search for it! 3) How do I make sure the isapnp is run at bootup? If you installed the isapnp from the .deb, it's already set to run. The script is loaded in /etc/init.d = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
cd-rw for old cdrom drivers (8x)
Speed isn't your problem. Selecting the speed in cdrecord on changes how long the disk took to burn. Older CD rom drives can't read CD-RW disks, period. The reflectivity of CD-RW's is quite low, lower even than CD-R media. The optics and electronics of a CD rom reader must be able to 'see' the pits recorded onto the media to read it, and the contrast is too low on CD-RW media for some old drives to do it. Even older CD rom drives won't be able to read CD-R media either. Your 44x drive seems to be able to handle CD-RW and CD-R media, it must be of quite recent design. BTW I have a DVD-video player that also plays audio CD's (actually all such players do) but it won't play CD-R disks! (even though my old portable cd walkman will, and the cd player in my car will also. But these players will probably balk at cd-rw media). SOonly use cd-rw media for stuff you will read back later on the cd-rw burner, and use CD-R media for interchange between machines. Hi, I've burned a potato image (disk 2) on a cd-rw disk. What cdrecord options should I use in order to make the disk readable by olders cdrom drivers (8x, 4x, 16x, etc)? I've tried in a 8x and wasn't able to read even it works fine on a 44x one. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: can't print
I'm far from the most expert on parallel ports -- until recently, I hadn't touched one in years -- but I did just have to get a parallel printer working on a potato server. I did it by (manually) insmod'ing parport.o parport_pc.o lp.o Most of the printing docs I've seen don't mention the last of these. I'm not sure if the second one is actually needed; it might be the support for non-printer devices on the parport. I found that loading parport_pc automagicly loaded parport. Atleast when using modconfig and selecting parport_pc it also grabbed parport. I think we have a layered driver here, lp sits on top of parport_pc on top of parport. Or something like that. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: /dev/hda10
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to access /dev/hda10? I can create it easily but trying to access it I get an 'unconfigured device' message for instance from mke2fs. Do I need a special boot time parameter? Can you tell me exactly how you have 10 partitons? Even the sun disk label only allows for 8. And i386 can have a max of 7(?) with extended partitions enabled. I have /dev/hdb11 on my machine! I think you can have as many as 32 partitions on an IDE hd on i386. (the limit on scsi is less?) Also if you have extended partitions then you might just have an /dev/hdx4 (no 1,2, or 3) since extended partitions start at number 5. (in my case I have /dev/hdb1, 2, 4,5 - 11) = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
Re: cpu arch performance
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Lee Elliott wrote: Hello list(s), Just something I noticed after setting up an x86 system after running Debian on m68k. The m68k system was an Amiga with an m68060/50MHz which gave a BogoMIP rating of 99.something. The x86 system is a dual PIII 650MHz system and it rates as 2600 BogoMIPs. This would seem to imply that on a per MHz basis, the m68060 is the equivalent of two PIIIs. This is right. AFAIK, the hardware side of the issue goes something like this: One phase of the clock signal looks something like this: Voltage high ||| low ||| The x86 Processors will issue a command whenever the signal voltage is high. The m68k processors will issue a command whenever the signal voltage is high and the next when it's low (Motorola claims, that the 68060 issues three commands per clock cycle, I don't know why you then don't get three times the MIPS value of a x86 on a per MHz basis. I also don't know if the above mentioned holds true for Pentium and upwards. But it holds true for 386 and 486). This is why a m68k processor is on a per MHz basis really twice as fast as a x86 processor. Regards, Daniel - The AMD K6 also gives about 2x the clock in bogo mips. Not sure about the K7/Athlon though. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?
Hello, I've been thinking about getting a new UPS. Previously I purchased APC products, but I want to hear about other experiences. I've pretty much narrowed it down to a product from APC or Tripplite. APC is more expensive, less Linux/UNIX friendly, but makes good products (IMHO). Tripplite is less expensive, more Linux/UNIX friendly, but I'm not sure how the quality of their product compares to APC. Does anyone know of some sort of comparison between these two companies products? I'm interested in features/quality more then price. APC IS linux friendly! There are at least TWO debian packages that work with APC ups units. Also you can download a (binary only) package from apc that works under linux/x11. That one comes in an .RPM and tarball. I have used apc units for some time. The BACK-UPS product line is not very expensive and works well. You can hot swap the batteries via a trapdoor in the bottom of the unit. The 300va unit is $89 at office depot, the 500va is $129, the 650va is $199. They put out a stepped sine wave which is nicer on your ps than the square wave that the trip-lite units put out. (You get what you pay for). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Mouse Configuration
First make sure that the xf86config pointer section specifies /dev/psaux as the hardware connection. There are several choices of mouse protocol that might work. microsoft, mouseman, logitech, etc. Some mice have a switch on the bottom to change protocol from native to microsoft. Try 'em all. Hello All, Anyone have any idea;s what would keep my mouse from woring in X Windows. Its a PS2 Kensington mouse. I cant seem to get it to work. Is it compatible with Debian? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Unidentified subject!
2.2 is stable enough right now to install. It is in DEEEP FREEEZE at the moment, in final testing before cd images are released. You CAN find some cdr's of potato for sale, or just install over the net. A basic install over a 56k modem will take overnight. I am running 2.2 now, and except for a broken apropos (which no one else knows anything about) it all works fine. Hello, I have been anxiously waiting for Debian 2.2 to be released. Awhile back I installed 2.1 and was very impressed with the package system and overall stability. However, I had problems upgrading to kernel 2.2. Since I needed kernel 2.2 and needed a fully functional system I returned to using Mandrake Linux. Currently, I have some time to fiddle with my system until I start working again. My question is: Should I install the 2.2 pre-release? If so, what suggests do you have? Also, will upgrading to the official release be reasonably straight foward? Thanks Christopher Klumb [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
tulip driver differences between 2.0 and 2.2
I have two versions of the LRP built (OK one is actually coyote linux, but based on LRP and debian). One is using a 2.0.36 kernel, the other 2.2.14. The led's on the tulip nic's (dec 21041 chips) light and flash under the 2.0 kernel, but are dark under the 2.2 kernel. However, both systems run OK otherwise. What's going on here? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
write protect floppy forever!?
I wanted to copy a floppy (as an image). So I inserted a floppy in /dev/fd0 and used dd if=/dev/fd0 of=./temp then pop'ed the source diskette out and replaced it with a blank and used dd if=./temp of=/dev/fd0 (while root of course :-) This works fine, but if in the first move the floppy was write protected the second command fails with write only file system. I couldn't again write to /dev/fd0 without rebooting. Loging out as root and loging in again as root won't help. There must be a way to tell /dev/fd0 to read the damn write protect switch again = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Subject: LS-120 install
I was trying to install debian (frozen) on my laptop the other day but got stuckon the following. i have a LS-120 drive (for superdisks which is backwards compatible with 1.44MB disks) which i was using to boot the install disk. the images i used were the ones from the idepci subdirectory. the system started booting, the image on the floppy started booting as well until it gave the following message: Insert the root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press Enter. (or something like that) i tried pressing enter with the disk i had used to boot from since i believe that's all i needed (i was gonna do an harddrive install with base2_2.tgz on another linux partition). i even tried the driver disk just in case... nothing seemed to do it... Actually you need two floppy disk images (at least) the boot disk, and the root disk. The boot disk has the kernel, the root disk has the rest of the system (includes the installer). However (someone correct me if I'm wrong) the disks were written to run on a real floppy NOT off an ide-floppy (which the ls120 is) and would probably die at the point that you tried to insert the the root disk and hit return, it would never find the root disk since it was looking at /dev/fd0, not /dev/hdxx where the ls120 is! I have never managed to install of an ls120 so I still have a floppy in my computers.along with an ls120. I bet zip drives have the same problem. OTOH booting off a cd rom drive DOES work am i doing something wrong with the disks i'm using or is it a problem with the LS-120 support? thanks for any help, thomas = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
grip and cdparanoia, must run suid?
I installed grip, but I can't run in unless I am root (sudo, or suid). The error I get is 'can't access cd rom drive'. My /dev/scd1 is owned by root, group is cdrom. The drive is actually on /dev/hdc physically but I am running scsi-ide emulation. I also have a 'real' scsi cdrom that is /dev/scd0. I added myself to the cdrom group (edited /etc/group as root) and logged out and back in as myself. No joy, still can't run grip or cdparanoia (actually it was cdparanoia that issued the error message). I did chmod +s on cdparanoia and grip and then it worked. But I should be able to access the cdrom if I'm in the cdrom group? I can access my /dev/dsp device by adding myself to the audio group (I don't think xmmm is suid, I can run it as a user in the audio group). Ideas? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
how to burn from iso file in xcdroast
Does anyone know the command sequence to get xcdroast to burn from an .iso file I downloaded? I can't seem to get it to see the file and burn from it. I was able to do this in slink ( or was it hamm?), but can't seem to find the sequence of things now. HELP (If I mounted the file as a file system using loop that might do it by giving the mounted dir as the path of the image, but I think xcdroast is supposed to do this itself!) = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: how to burn from iso file in xcdroast
I just went through this a couple of days ago. The commandline is: cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0 file Speed dev probably will be different on your box. I found this was much easier than doing it with xcdroast. Someone had mentioned that by just changing the extension from .iso to .raw, then xcdroast would be able to write it ok. I haven't tried it though. Thanks. I figure out how to get xcdroast to work though. In the write cd menu I enter the actual file name and path in the drop down box. I guess it only displays the names of files with a .raw extension there. Since xcdroast doesn't have a check box for 80 minute (700mb) disks, or support speeds of 10x or 12x (yet) it may be time to download the source and make some custom mods. I would also modify the drop down box to display both .raw and .iso files. (of course debian maynot have the latest version so maybe I should download the latest source from upstream first) = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
set up cd-rw
There is a setup button in the opening menu of xcdroast. click on it, make your changes, and press the save button! (If it were a snake it would have bit you! --- i'm having bit of a problem. when i first installed xcdroast (including cdrecord and mkisofs)) with dselect, it ran me through a little setup for the cd-rw device and my cdrom. i had to pick which drives i had and name them. unfortunately, i picked the incorrect drives and i didn't name my cd-rw model. so i can't pick a device in xcdroast. can anyone tell me how i can run this setup again? i'm having a bit of trouble finding it, searched the man pages. and i haven't been able to find anything at the home pages for these utils. i would have mailed the dude who wrote these, but i wasn't sure if deselect kept things arranged a tad differently then originally intended by the creator. thanks for any help. jerry = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Installing lp in potato..
When selecting the device driver module for lp (line printer) in potato I get this error: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod lp failed. Installation failed. The lp support in potato (2.2.x kernels) has been split into two parts. You need to load parport_pc.o and lp.o (in that order) or it won't work. Any io or irq parms must be specified to parport_pc.o and the parport# specified to lp.o Drove me batty for a while trying to get the lp driver(s) to grab only one of my three parallel ports. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: which sound configuration utility?
I had a go at repackaging sndconfig for Debian recently, and found that it depends rather heavily on kudzu (Red Hat's hardware configuration system). I came to the conclusion that it would take either a major rewrite of sndconfig or a reworking of Debian's hardware detection system to get sndconfig to work on Debian. Has anyone seen RedHat's HW detection in action? It's real cool! I swapped some HW on a system running RedHat and rebooted the system. It automagicly detected the new HW (video card) during kernel boot and installed the required drivers all by itself! (Just like windows!) This has to be backported into Debian! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Subject: Re: Netscape 6
Please disregard my previous posting. I can run Netscape 6 now; thanks to Eric Hanchrow for the response of getting libstdc*.so. BTW, how do you change the window's background color? I can't see the cursor while editing the mail. Are you running 24 bpi in X? I have found that netscape dosen't like 24 bpp but will give the correct colors if X is run at 32 bpp. Don't know if 8 or 16 bpp settings cause problems. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
apropos broken in potato (here)
I wrote in before with the problem that apropos is now broken on my potato system and I don't know how to fix it. It either hangs with no response, gives a short response and never finishes (never get the bash prompt back unless I ^C), or prints a response repeatly (of one or more finds). In the latter case seems to get stuck on something from section 3, maybe tckl or qt. How can I repair apropos? I have tried apt-get dist-upgrade as suggested, but my system seems to be up to date as far as that was concerned (first did apt-get update). I know others don't have the problem, but they may have different packages installed than I do, and there may be a broken man page somewhere that is screwing me up? If it would help I could attach a list out of my installed packages, or a directory list of all man files I have? Any ideas? Thanks. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
floppy install problems
You might try coping the files to floppies that have been formated on the target machine's drive. Or transfer the target machine's floppy drive to the machine doing the copying and then move it back to the tarket machine. Methinks floppy interchange may be a problem. To all, I have tried to install Debian from floppy disks several times on an old IBM 486 ps2 machine. The machine boots fine with the rescue disk fine. The point at which the install fails is during the mounting of the rescue disk to continue with the base install. I have made several new rescue floppys thinking it may be the media. I have only chosen to install from floppy because the machine has no cdrom and only one isa slot for expansion. It does have a 300 mb hard and 8 mb of ram. Thanks for any help in advance. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
need hp filter for gramofile
I wonder if there is a graphic-equalizer program that can be used ahead of gramofile to treble cut, (or better yet band cut) a nasty whine I have on a tape that I want to convert to mp3. The problem appears to be from the fm pilot carier mixing with the recorder's bias oscilator producing a high pitch whine. Maybe It can also be filtered out digitally from the resulting wav or mp3 file. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
One Lp, problem solved! But where do parms go?
I posted a question here a while ago asking how to configure the system to use only one of three LP ports that I have. (on potato) I found out the answer, and it's not what anyone else mentioned. I had to give parport_pc the following module argument: io=0x378 I had to then give lp the following module argument: parport1,none,none This was figured out by running modinfo -p on lp.o and parport_pc.o (I also figure how how to configure my sb module that way!) Now I have a question...where are the module parameters given to modconf stored. They are NOT in /etc/modules as the comments there seem to indicate. Does modconf actually modify the module binary? Or is there another configuration file someplace? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: want only 1 lp
--- In reply to:Kenneth Scharf Quoting Kenneth Scharf([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Kenneth Kenneth I have 3 lp cards in my computer at dos addresses Kenneth lpt1, lpt2, and lpt3. I only want the one at lpt1 to Kenneth be attached to the lp driver(s). I want the other two Kenneth ports free for my own software. I am running potato I only use one lp port for debian. As the 2.2.x and above kernels have renumbered the ports (lp1 now is lp0) I have this in my lilo. config. append = hdd=cdrom lp=parport0 parport=0x378,none The ',none' is to ignore IRQ's, thus freeing up an IRQ for other uses. -- I tried the above but it does not seem to work. See the output of dmesg when my kernel boots. (attachment) Note that lp0, 1 and 2 are still attached. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com lphelp Description: lphelp
want only 1 lp
I've posted this question before, but the digest lists went down for a few weeks before I could get any answers to this question. I have 3 lp cards in my computer at dos addresses lpt1, lpt2, and lpt3. I only want the one at lpt1 to be attached to the lp driver(s). I want the other two ports free for my own software. I am running potato now, the options entered for the modules in slink don't work here, on boot up the initial feedback shows all three lpt ports being grabbed by the lp driver nomatter what I've tried. Something is different in 2.2.x I think. Any ideas out there? I will be writting my own driver to talk to the other two ports. One for a home brew prom burner, the other for an 8052 ICE that was written up in byte some years ago. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
only want one lp under frozen
I have three LP interfaces in my computer, but I only want one of them to be attached to the lp driver. I intend to write my own driver to hook the others to a home brew prom burner and an 8051 ice. Under slink I could add the parm lp0 io=0x3bc but under frozen the driver still reports that three lp's are assigned during boot. Also it seems that under 2.2.x the lp driver has been split into two modules. How do I get the kernel drivers to only use one of the lp interfaces and leave the other two for me to use with my own driver? (I have the O'Reily Linux device drivers book). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
connecting to DSL
I (finally) seem to have a working connection via IDSL. It works fine under windows by just setting up the IP, Gateway, Netmask, and DNS entries under the tcp/ip pulldown under the networking configuration for my network card. IP 216.xxx.xxx.xxx gateway 216.xxx.xxx.1 broadcast 216.xxx.xxx.255 How do I do this under Potato? I changed the entries in /etc/networks/interfaces for my ethernet card to match the ip, gateway, and netmask that worked under windows, and the /etc/resolv.conf file I added the lines: nameserver 209.67.3.166 nameserver 209.185.207.135 which are the actual nameserver ip's I was given. I then restarted the computer and tried to ping my gateway address (that worked). I could not however ping my dns ip's (network unreachable), nor get to the debian site when I ran apt-get. Any ideas? I will also need to install a second network card, recompile the kernel to support ipmasq, and set the IP on the second card to a local lan address so I can firewall the net to another computer (actually I am building a second computer to just handle the firewall stuff and my linux workstation will be on of three computers on the local lan, the other two running windows). Any ideas on what to do here? Thanks! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: connecting to DSL
Why dhcp? I have a STATIC IP address on my xdsl connection. I am NOT using dhcp on windows, and am sending this e mail out right now on windows. --- Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I (finally) seem to have a working connection via IDSL. It works fine under windows by just setting up the IP, Gateway, Netmask, and DNS entries under the tcp/ip pulldown under the networking configuration for my network card. IP 216.xxx.xxx.xxx gateway 216.xxx.xxx.1 broadcast 216.xxx.xxx.255 How do I do this under Potato? I changed the entries in /etc/networks/interfaces for my ethernet card to match the ip, gateway, and netmask that worked under windows, and the /etc/resolv.conf file I added the lines: nameserver 209.67.3.166 nameserver 209.185.207.135 which are the actual nameserver ip's I was given. I then restarted the computer and tried to ping my gateway address (that worked). I could not however ping my dns ip's (network unreachable), nor get to the debian site when I ran apt-get. Any ideas? Try installing one of the dhcp clients. dhcpcd, or something similar (bootp?). Marshal I will also need to install a second network card, recompile the kernel to support ipmasq, and set the IP on the second card to a local lan address so I can firewall the net to another computer (actually I am building a second computer to just handle the firewall stuff and my linux workstation will be on of three computers on the local lan, the other two running windows). Any ideas on what to do here? Thanks! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
swap partition
What is the max size of a swap partition under the 2.2 and 2.3/2.4 kernels. I know that the 2.0 kernels were limited to 128 (or 127?)mb, but you could have several of them. Did this change in 2.2-2.4? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
partition recommendations
With an eye toward upgrading to Potato, and hearing all the horor stories about slink-potato upgrade failures I decided to do a fresh install from scratch. So I obtained a brand new 27GB drive from www.compgeeks.com (check them out, great bargins!). I will have a small (say 100 mb) /boot partition at the front of the disk (to avoid cyl 1024 problems with lilo), and a 128mb swap partition. Other than that any good ideas on how to partition the disk? In the past I have just made the rest of the drive one hugh partition for \ to avoid figuring out how much to allocate for everything. However with 27GB of space I guess I can make a few errors without much horror. I intend for this machine to be a workstation (machine is a PIII-500 with 128mb dram), and will be developing software/packages with an eye toward becoming a debian developer (whenever new ones are being accepted again). BTW I still have slink on the other disk (13gb / partition). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Who builds YOUR binary RPMs?
There are two questions to this issue: 1: Do you trust your distro? 2: Do you trust your distro's ftp site. Question number two is really a matter of the site having been hacked and a trojan (or a coo-coo) being planted. I use debian, and I DO trust them. I would never have a problem downloading a .deb file from the official debian site or a trusted mirror. In fact it is a little different with .deb's. RPM's are EVERYWHERE, and ANY Tom, Dick, or Harry can create them. DEB's seem to be created mostly by Debian personal (though there are some non-official ones). The reason for this is that the tools necessary to create DEB's are not as well documented and understood, so only real debian developers are using them. Of course with Corel and Stormix in the picture now, this might be changing. --- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Schaefer wrote: I know this is a Linux list, but a friend of mine had this exchange with one of the people from FreeBSD back in November, regarding Linux vs. FreeBSD and I thought you folks might like to read it ... it may prompt some of you to actually go make a boot floppy and install straight from the net ... Keith, my friend had written an article, to which Daniel Sobral, (FreeBSD) responded, and this is only one of several of the emails exchanged: = cut here = Wow, Tom, thanks for copying me on this exchange. I found it VERY interesting. This, plus Carlos's information that there ARE indeed multiple fallback sites built in for everything under /usr/ports, makes me want to explore FreeBSD so much more. One other thing that I noticed during my FreeBSD box's compilation, but forgot about until reminded by that article, was that the source packages' MD5 checksums are part of the process to help ensure that you're not downloading a trojan. This brings up a serious trust issue: It's only a matter of time (could have already happened, for all we know) before somebody at one of the RPM-based distro companies inadvertantly puts out a binary RPM that does something nasty and/or covert to our systems. Or maybe it won't be so innocent: some scummy PHB will get the bright idea to have the coders slip in a piece of code to 'survey' which programs we use the most, or to 'sign' content you produce with your ethernet card's MAC address (MS does this with Word, they called it a bug, gimme a break!) Yes, they provide SRPMS too, but how do you know the RPMS came directly from the SRPMS? The question comes down to: Do you trust your distro provider to build all of your binaries cleanly? In a couple years when pressure comes from Wall Street to turn a profit or lose that huge market capitalization, can we trust them to still play straight with us? Don't get me wrong: I'm very pro-business! I work for myself, and am doing pretty nicely, and hope to do even better - it's wonderful, I wish more people could enjoy it... but the misdeeds of the very largest companies (MS, AOL, Disney, Sony, Amazon, Real Networks, MPAA/DVD-CSS, GTE, Bellsouth, Network Solutions, you get the idea) have taught me to distrust the very largest players. After money comes power, and in our world, these guys' idea of power includes intentional backdoors, sabotaging competing software, selective platform support, eyeballs, spam, restrictive contracts, and ads. I don't see that Linux companies are inherently immune to these things. I'm starting to think that building all your software only from trusted source *.tar.gz files is going to become standard practice among the paranoid (yes, I lean that way too, can you tell?). FreeBSD does that right now, and we need to either add Linux to the /usr/ports system, or come up with something similar in order to guard against these potential abuses. What do you think? Tim --- Brought to you by the Florida Linux User Xchange, FLUX. Visit our webpage at: http://www.flux.org Mailing list subscription issues: http://www.flux.org/members/list.html = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Pathetic Performance
The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about the 486- 100 (Alice) machine it's only got 20mb of ram. Alice has a Cirrus Logic GD54xx series PCI card with 1mb ram. Both systems use the svga xserver. As far as swap space Carol has a swap partition but Alice has a swap file on the single partition, Corel didn't ask at install. Top tells me I'm 26M into Alice's swap file as I write this. As for the desktop I'm running WindowMaker without Gnome on Alice and the 33Mhz Carol runs FVWM2. Did you upgrade the -100 system to the faster cpu, or did it come that way? I once had a 486dx-33 which I upgraded to a dx100 and (this was in the windows days) norton showed NO increase in speed. I CAREFULLY went into the bios and changed the cache settings to use fewer cycles. VIOLA! I was now getting full speed from the cpu. You might look at the bogo mips ouptput and compare to what similar 486dx100's get (see the bogomips howto). The bogo mips rating is generally useless, but it CAN sometimes show a cpu not firing on all cylinders. (I caught a 486 with the turbo switch in the wrong setting that way. Then again if LILO is slow it means the same thing.) And yes I agree with the comments on memory. Look at /proc/meminfo when the system is loaded and see how much of your memory and swap space are being used. If swap is maxing out, you DO have a problem. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
potato - where's lp
I found it. Oops! You have to say yes to parallel device in general setup to get printer support in char devices. Maybe I'm loosing my marbles but I didn't remember this connection in the 2.0 kernel config. Also the help calls the parellel device option out for things like zip drives etc... not printers in general. Is this connection new in 2.2? Also I thought that there was support for USB in 2.2, but I havn't found it in the menu config items (yet). I did select prompt for experimental code. One last question is potato now linked to frozen? Should I change my sources.list to point to frozen or potato instead of unstable now? Thanks. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
Just tried this. Catch 22. It didn't work because the package wasn't fully installed! I tried to purge lynx but it complains that /usr/lib/mine/packages/lynx is a ro file system. I tired to manually delete this file (root has rw permission) but rm complains that it can't unlink the file. Is there a way to set the default priority of debconf back to low? --- Cesar Mendoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, man dpkg-reconfigure and read the option --priority Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.kitiara.org On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: So how do I reset the debconf priority after having installed the system? I don't see an appropreate config file in /etc. Hi, I got that error and found that there is a problem between debconf and the lynx package. When the debconf priority is set to high, the installation script breaks. Set debconf priority to low, answer the installation questions and everything should be allright. Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.kitiara.org = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
Never mind my previous email... I finally figured out to run dpkg-reconfig on debconfig with --priority=low to reset the priority! But after doing that I STILL get an error installing lynx! Tried to apt-get --reinstall install lynx Same error: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 30. lynx E: Subprocess returned an error code (1) OK I just tried this AGAIN, this time answering the question to ask old question again with YES. Then tried the apt-get reinstall again. This time it worked. Boy what hoops to jump through to fix this broken lynx install! BTW the only lynx question asked was for the homepage. Don't see how that broke the install. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
dhcp client
How do I setup my linux box to get it's lan address from dhcp-client? I've installed dhcp-client (no configuration requested). Looking at /etc/init.d/network I see my static ip is defined and used in the ifconfig line to start the network. What do I replace these with to get the ip from dhcp-client, and where do I specify my dhcp server ip? Thanks. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
Guess I'm a tester. I tried to install Potato via the internet. Downloaded all floppies and installed base, configured networking, and ran dselect (after modifying /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list) Almost every went well...except lynx. .. dpkg error processing lynx subproc post - install script returned error exit status 30 I purged lynx and tried apt-get lynx failed to configure, with exit code 30 I also saw a message that /usr was busy ??? (no disk is NOT full, df shows /user 16%, / 11% OTHER NOTES: Beside's lynx the following was observed. 1: no way to specify DHCP for IP address during network setup portion of install (I can do this all the time with redhat). 2: I wanted to put lilo on the MBR of /dev/hda but the root filesystem is on /dev/hdc1. The install script won't do this by default, I suppose I could have shelled out and re-ran lilo. Instead I booted using the rescue disk and mounted the root partition, then edited lilo.config and reran lilo. I got a warning that this configuration might not work due to the bios (but the bios sees all 4 drives, even though it won't boot any but C:). Anyway changing to /dev/hda for the boot block and keeping the root at /dev/hdc1 works fine. 3. somehow I managed to misstype my root password TWICE!! resulting in not being able to log in as root! Yuck. Had to boot using the rescue disk, mount the root partition, and edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Muprhy's Law Tomorrow I'll try configuring X. Probably have something else to report. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
How to install over www
I have a spare computer in my office that I'd like to install potato on. It has three hard disks of 1GB, 1GB, and 420MB as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, and /dev/hdc. I have a 3c509b elan card in the machine so I can connect it to the www via the corportate lan and firewall. (I already have a machine running slink which can be updated via apt/dselect through the firewall). I will set up this new computer for dhcp to obtain it's ip address from the local server. Am I correct that I will have to install (enough of) the base system via floppies before I will be able to use apt/deselct to install the rest of the system? I do NOT want to first install slink and upgrade (guess I'm testing your boot floppies for you) or to first burn a CD rom. I want to try to install TOTALLY over the web. PS. The target machine is a P90 with 32mb of dram. It also has an AHA15xx scsi controller, and both scsi and ide cd rom drives. Thanks for any help. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: How to install over www
The thing here is that I am starting with 3 totaly blank hd's. I really don't want to put an msdos partition on any of them, I'd like to do this install without using ANY M$ software in the process. I already downloaded all ten base disks, the rescue disk, the driver disks, and the root disk. The download was done on another linux system (slink). Except for the fact that the company firewall is probably running NT, the setup non - M$. So I guess I will need to run through all 10 base disks to perform the install. I suppose I could also burn a CDR with ONLY the base system on it (never mind the fact that the only CD burners in the company are on Windows machines). I wonder just how small a system needs to be installed to get to the point where the rest can be bootsrapped in over the web? (Hmmm the LRP fits on a floppy) Yes, basically. You will need to at least have the rescue, root, and the three drivers floppies. The base system you can put somewhere on the harddrive (can installation system mount msdos partitions? I had the base_2_2.tgz (?) in an ext2fs partition). Ideally, you must be able to even read the drivers floppies' images from the harddrive, but it didn't work for me (I tried 10 different ways of specifying path to them... I don't know where exactly the installation proggie wants to find those images. I gave up and installed the drivers off floppies). I just did a similar setup. After you set the base system up, you can boot into it and use apt/dselect to install the rest via ftp/http. I ended up using 5 floppies altogether. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Some news
Has anyone seen this story posted on www.linuxtoday.com about pine and debian? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/deb/pine_pico.html Also I just got a catalog from tigerdirect in the mail and they are now selling computer systems with linux pre-loaded. Nowwhere do they say what distro is being preloaded (probably redhat) but they are also selling most of the popular distros as well. They have Redhat, slackware, corel, turbolinux, caldera, and even freebsd (which they say is a version of linux!). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
re:ADSL modems
i am planning to go for ADSL bellsouth fastacess account. they are giving an internal pci adsl modem card. what are the linux compatible adsl cards? I don't think they make ADSL modem cards yet. (My ADSL modem isabout as large as a kleenex box.) Bell south IS now using an internal ADSL modem card. There was a discussion on our linux users group at flux.org about this. The particular card is the winmodem of adsl and AFAWK does not work with linux. Bellsouth does NOT support Linux (or macs for that matter) and won't supply anything else. So many of our members have told Ma Bell where to stuff their ADSL and have gone with Flashcom or some other linux friendly xDSL re-seller. I am now waiting on delivery of ISDL from flashcom (I can't get ADSL because I'm 16K feet from my HO). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
command line ftp behind firewall
I was finally able to get netscape to work on my linux box behind the corporate firewall by setting the manual proxy to 10.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 for http and ftp (I actually gave the REAL address). I could not just give the URL address as the machine still doesn't seem to co-exist with the windows network nameserver even though the hard addresses of the name servers were entered into /etc/resolv.conf Now how do I configure command line ftp to access via the firewall's port 80 as I have just done for Netscape-naviagator? (Once I can do that I can finally use apt-get directly on this machine, instead of downloading the packages one by one). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
SMP
Hello. Anyone knows if you can run SMP on a system with one Pentium II 233mhz and one Pentium II 366mhz or if this will mean problem? AFAIK all dual cpu mb's WILL NOT run with two cpu's of different speeds, IE: they BOTH must be the same speed. If you can force the PII-366 to run at 233mhz (changing the divider ratio) then this might work. Early PII's were not divider ratio locked, all celerons, PIII's and late PII's ARE, and can ONLY be run at one speed. Also I didn't think there WAS a PII-366 (did you mean 266?). A 233 and a 266 both running at 233 might work if your bios will set this up right. Abits probably, tyans probably not. AFAIK PII's were made in the following speeds: 233,266,300,333 @66 mhz bus 300,350,400,450 @100 mhz bus PIII's are: 450,500,550,600 @100 mhz bus 533,600,666,733 @133 mhz bus (coppermine) = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
RE: ? or eithernet card?
Sorry i know this is stupid but im looking for drivers to my network component (Nile VIA VT86C916) it was given to me for free i cant find drivers (i have only the hardware) Can u help me ? I don't know if this is the right driver, but a search in the src (kernel 2.0.36) shows a via-rhine module in the net driver section. Maybe there is another flavor of via in the 2.2 kernel. You might try it. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: finding IP address of ethernet card
The trick (as you showed, but didn't point out) is that you must either have /sbin in you path (which root does) or specifiy it when you try to run ifconfig. Mere mortals must run ifconfig as such: /sbin/ifconfig Root can just type ifconfig, because /sbin is in his path. Or course mere mortals can't bring up the net or shut it down with ifconfig..(least I hope not). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: Looking for right ISP
What do you mean by co-location? Many DSL providers won't allow users run their servers also. Could you give the names of who does. I believe that flashcom.com will allow a single server to be run from (some of) their dsl accounts, perhaps with a small extra monthly fee. They do have more costly accounts that allow multiple servers to be run. (And they probably look the other way if your server dosn't make a pig of itself). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
firewalls and bsd
If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can answer this. I have been doing some reading and have heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a better canidate os for a firewall system than linux (herertic!). OpenBSD in particular was highly regarded in this (though it was said to be a RPITA to install). Any thoughts on this out there? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: firewalls and bsd
I have discovered a fair amount of BSD advocacy turned anti-Linux. Like Linux zealots, BSDers are not above snobbery. I think both groups need to be open minded, we all have something we can learn from each other. Alas, the BSD licences would allow linux to 'borrow' or 'steal' good stuff from BSD, but the reverse would not be allowed by the GPL, without forcing it's 'virus' on BSD. (That in itself could be a root cause of anti-linux snobbery by BSD'ers). I guess linux still makes a better workstation os (though there are things in the BSD use of disks that linux could use) and BSD works well closer to the net's main plumbing. I am thinking of getting some 'bsd cd's and exploring it for use as a firewall system to go between my future isdl (waiting for flashcom) connection and my home lan. I have two win95 boxes and a debian-slink box on the lan now. Guess cheapbyte's bsd sampler (netbsd, openbsd, freebsd) for $14 would be a good place to start. They don't offer the latest version of open or free (2.5 and 3.2), but guess that's close enough. I have a P100 with 32m ram and 2g disk available, have two dec 21041 based pci lan cards on order. Guess that's enough iron for the job. Once the software is installed I suppose the box can be headless and handless (no monitor or kb) and be administered over the internal lan via ssh or something. (So I can hide it in a closet). Thanks for any advise! Ken. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Xterm and function keys
Hi! I discovered a strange thing: In an xterm the function keys produce the following: F1 - ^[OP F2 - ^[OQ F3 - ^[OR F4 - ^[OS F5 - ^[[15~ F6 - ^[[16~ ... On a different system (I tried SuSE) they produce: F1 - ^[[11~ F2 - ^[[12~ F3 - ^[[13~ F4 - ^[[14~ F5 - ^[[15~ F6 - ^[[16~ ... which seems more correct. I also get this behaviour on my Debian (potato) box when I use rxvt or konsole. I don't think I misconfigured anything, because I confirmed this behavior with a fresh added user, too. Do you have any idea where the problem is? You also get different return key codes for the function keys between a vconsole and an Xterm. Also look at the ctl, alt, and ctlalt shifted function keys, they are ALSO different between a vconsole and an Xterm. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
MPX EN5038, dual nic cards
I found a source for 10/100 baset enet cards that use either realtek 8139 or mpx en5038 chipsets. I know that the 8139 IS supported under linux, but I am not sure about the mpx en5038 (a grep on the net sources in 2.0.38 turned up nothing). Does anyone know if this chipset is supported? Maybe I can only accept the cards with the realtek. Also I am planning to build a firewall machine for my lan as I have ordered dsl service. If I configure a machine with dual nic's do they have to be the same type, or can I just load two drivers into the kernel for say one ne2000 card, and one 3-com card? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: recommend mp3 encoder
--- Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Scharf wrote: About the only choice these days is bladeenc. Due to patent issues it is probably NOT available in a .deb, at least not on the debian ftp site. However you can get it from Tord's home page (I don't recall the url, but you can find it on freshmeat or linuxberg). It is now licensed under the lgpl so the source is available. Bladeenc is a high quality encoder that excels at 128, 256, and 320bps encoding, AND is fast too! I wondered about this. Since it's a patent issue and most other countries don't accept software patents, why can't mp3 encoders be included in non-US? Thanks, Stuart. I don't know how many countries deny software patents, but Sweeden does at least as that is where the Bladeenc web site is. Tord had to consult with a lawyer to find out what to do when Franhaufer came knocking on his door. His response was, NOT HERE! No word what Franhaufer's response was. The reason he licensed under the LGPL instead of the GPL was to divorce any dependancies of his software upon where it was used, just in case. A debian non-us site in Sweeden might work. BTW at last look I saw the source to Bladeenc on Stampede Linux's ftp site. Maybe they just don't care. (or haven't heard from Framhaufer yet). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Subject: Can Debian users install the new Corel packages?
You mean like this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] locate wxftp | grep /slink/ It's been in debian for years, the version in corel is the exact same version in slink. I confess I never thought to look. When I saw the program on the Corel cd I knew what it was and installed it. I guess I never downloaded the packages.gz file for slink from non-free. It figures thought, there are SO many debian packages between main, contrib, and non-free that just about EVERYTHING is there. Now I DON'T think that QSSTV has been packaged, and if it can be re-worked to link against qt2.0 it would even go in main/hamradio. If I was a debian developer I would package it. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
recommend mp3 encoder
About the only choice these days is bladeenc. Due to patent issues it is probably NOT available in a .deb, at least not on the debian ftp site. However you can get it from Tord's home page (I don't recall the url, but you can find it on freshmeat or linuxberg). It is now licensed under the lgpl so the source is available. Bladeenc is a high quality encoder that excels at 128, 256, and 320bps encoding, AND is fast too! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Subject: Can Debian users install the new Corel packages?
I am interested in trying out some of the new Corel apps like the file manager. Is it possible to get hold of individual apps from the new ditribution without downloading the whole iso file? I assume I would be legally permitted to use individual components like this . . As corel's packages are glibc2.0 based they should work well in slink. I downloaded the cd and installed wxftp from the .deb using dpkg -i. WXFTP is a real nice graphical front end to ftp, though I don't think it is free, it might make the contrib section. I have used the windows version and I like it because it has a progress meter. Anyway I had no problems installing it from the corel distro. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Fw: Well, Corel is out
I just popped the corel cd out of the burner and put in in by cd drive. Hey I can read it! (it actually burned!) Would you believe they DID NOT include EMACS! (it's not in the packages.gz file anyway). Guess they had a size problem. I'll try installing on the spare computer (wipe out RedHat) later. Meanwhile I'm exploring the cd. --- Adam Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a solution to this problem, and it's the Linux Standard Base project (LSB). Those folks are working to provide a set of standards which a distribution can conform to. Then people who write drivers and other software can just write them to work with any LSB-compliant distribution. --Adam :-) Richard wrote: The immortal question is still going to be... at what point do all these distributions prevent the non-distro developer from providing valuable software for example, I buy a laptop. It has the latest and greatest hardware, from USD to JOG dial, and an internal camera However, 5 of the 10 device drivers require drivers that are binary only from the distro of the week. I've already experienced this. I have the new Sony PCG505RX. It's a hummer. It also uses the NeoMagic 256AV chipset for video and audio. Redhat published a GPL version of a sound driver from www.uglx.org which is now in the kernel. The patches provided by UGLX do not work on all distros or even most(not entirely proven). I emailed NeoMagic and in a moment of weakness they told me that RH was working on a Binary Only version of the driver. Then there's opensound. I tried the 4Front audio driver on Mandrake 6.1 and they would not install and not load. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Fw: Well, Corel is out
I think you can take an iso file and use a loopback file system to create a filesystem image of the .iso without actually burning it. (under linux). There is something like that that enables you to test a cd image before burning it. See the cdrecord man pages I guess. As far as Corel linux is concerned I just tried to install it twice. Didn't get too far. The machine was an old P100. It had an S3 video card and a serial mouse. Corel detected the card ok, but never found the mouse. Made navigating the install windows a pain! I couldn't get past the partition hard disk step, couldn't figure out how to set up the partitions. So I did an altf1 and landed in a bash prompt. Ran fdisk by hand to delete all previous partitions. Rebooted and got to the select let corel use all the available disk space. Clicked on (well tabed to) install and hit return. Nothing happend. Just sat there! totally useless. --- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just popped the corel cd out of the burner and put in in by cd drive. Hey I can read it! (it actually burned!) Would you believe they DID NOT include EMACS! (it's not in the packages.gz file anyway). Guess they had a size problem. I'll try installing on the spare computer (wipe out RedHat) later. Meanwhile I'm exploring the cd. Any idea if there might be a program for Windows for me to be able to open up the ISO without needing to burn it to a CD? I'm just about ready to give up on my problems with getting Debian to work and Corel sounds like the next best thing. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/ = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Well, Corel is out
--- Tim Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Sytsma wrote: I've seen Corel's Linux out. It's 15$ to buy their cheap CD's, and ~50 to buy it in the box. However, I'd really like to see how good it is. Download it and find out! Sheesh. Has anybody here d/l'd the cdimages? Yes. See my comments from yesterday in the ACM Linux install event thread. Main question... is Corel's Lin any good? Is Linux any good? It's Debian linux, very clean, absolutely nothing else on the system except a real nice file manager ala Windows Explorer and a stripped down KDE desktop. There is a Corel Update, with a few cryptic options to do ( guessing here ) CVS updates to your system, or Debian updates across the net. Informix engine runs out of the box on it, but I haven't figured out what libraries are needed to make it work with Informix tools. This is always out of my reach. Is it glibc or whatever? It'll take somebody who understands the glibc/not-glibc arena to tell. Sigh. Here's the output from gcc: coconut:~$ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/specs gcc version 2.7.2.3 coconut:~$ Anyway, I think Corel has a great release, just no docs on what it is compared to other Linuxes. They have done a great job at a stripped down Linux without all the crap associated with other Linuxes. But trying to figure out how to add software and such is frustrating unless you're a Debian fan. And they need to get a real ps command instead of the lame one that came with it. :-) Later Tim I think the 'missing' pieces can just be installed off the debian ftp site. (They are using .deb's!) Unless they hosed the dpkg data base you could probably even install dselect. If they preserved the apt-get interface then upgrading-adding packages is very easy, just edit the aptsources file, udpate the available package database, and select what you want. Apt will solve any package dependancies and find all the libs you need. Also, will cheapbytes ever sell those CD's, or is it artfully licensed? Don't know don't care. Thanks, Mike Sytsma __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- . .- .-- .--- . Tim Schaefer .- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . http://www.inxutil.com .--- http://www.datad.com .-- .- . = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
re:Linux names (Re: Strange file names)
Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've shortened it to Debby. The linux box in my office is named 'Penguin', there is also a motororla power stack running PPC linux called 'MotoPenguin'. My box at home was 'Doppleganger', but is now 'M5' = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Sane / Scanner problem
I have scsi generic support, and aha152x support compiled in the kernel (potato with 2.2.13) and have sane installed. The scsi card is Adaptec 1505. The kernel recognizes the card fine. I didn't have the sg devices in my /dev directory, so I did a MAKEDEV sg to make them. I made the sym. link from /dev/scanner to /dev/sg0 (the only scsi device in my system is the card). Went to /etc/sane.d and ran find-scanner, but sane couldn't find the scanner. What am I missing? use dmseg and check that the scanner was actually detected by the scsi driver. My scanner (hp sj3c) had to be turned on before the computer and completly warmed up before the kernel would detect it (meant turning on the scanner 3 minutes before booting linux!). Also make sure permissions for /dev/sg0 allow user or group access, or run find-scanner as root. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
re: killed my monitor
Yes its true! My ADI MicroScan 6P 19 monitor just died on me last night. It had been making a lot of clicking/cracking noises over the past couple of weeks each accompanied by a slight flicker/bounce/warp in the image. But last night it was just too much and there was a really, really loud click/crack noise and the picture went blank. The ADI is at a repair shop right now (authorized ADI repair center) and luckily I was able to get a loaner from them. I am just wondering if this happened because of me misconfiguring XF86. My video card is a Matrox Millennium G200 8MB. The ADI's hsync is 30-94 KHz, and its vsync is 48-160 Hz. In the XF86config program, I selected the monitor type as: 8 31.5 - 64.3; Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz and I entered its vsync as 50-100 since it falls within the ADI's specs. I am attaching to this email the XF86Config file that I have used with this ADI monitor under Debian-2.1 since early September. I'd like someone to tell me if I entered/selected some incorrect configuration value for XF86 that might have possibly contributed to my monitor getting toasted. I am pretty sure that I selected my monitor as 31.5 - 64.3; Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz but I can't remember!! I think it is unlikely that you could damage a monitor with digital controls. Most mulit-sync monitors with digital controls these days are designed to operate safely over a wide range of hor/vert and will not over heat. It is more likely that the power company set a surge your way. Also in many cases the clicking/poping noises you hear are due to arc-over in the high voltage circuits. While not normal, many monitors are designed to absorb excessive hv using 'spark gap' capacitors which are sort of like 'lightning arrestors'. My 19 Digital Research monitor pops like that once in a great while and the picture jumps. This will happen more often in a dusty or humid environment. The legend of blowing out monitors with improper X settings (it CAN happen) is due to people trying to run xvga on svga monitors with rotary sync controls. With a digital control monitor, if you can get a stable picture without any foldover, you are probably operating within the safe envelope. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
glibc2.1
Now that potato is delayed until next year I think I should try upgrading to glibc2.1 at least. There are just too many fine programs out on freshmeat that require 2.1 over 2.0. I know that it's been posted before, but I've lost the url... can someone repeat the procedure to upgrade slink to glibc2.1? I can live with the 2.0.38 kernel for now, about the only thing I think I'll miss would be USB and at the moment I only have a mouse = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
re: Large disks
I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB IBM harddisk and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive. I went ahead and partitioned the drive normally, leaving the last 4GB for /home. Now I've upgraded to 2.2.x and potato and I want to use the whole of the disk by extending the /home partition. How can I do this? I think you mean that you had several partitions and that the last one was the home partition. I don't know if you can extend the partition without loosing data. You can of course back up the /home partition, delete it, re-create it as a larger partition with the same starting address, re-create the file system, and then restore it. I think that the latest version of partitionmagic will extend linux partitions BUT partitionmagic only runs under windows so your system must dual boot. BTW your original problem was that under the 2.0.x kernels the linux fdisk tools only see the first 8.4gb of a larger disk. I 'solved' this problem by booting a RedHat 6.1 cd (2.2.x kernel)and using it's disk partition software to create my partitions, then I booted my debian cd and installed slink. If you know the actual start and end cylinders you could also just give cfdisk or fdisk these numbers under slink and then it will see the whole disk. I've done that too. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: gtk+ 1.2?
libgtk++ is one of a few 'moving targets' that debian can't keep up with. Another is wine. Also VDK and gEDA. So I have been downloading sources from their home sites and building my own in /usr/local/src. This works but you must include /usr/local in your path. Also add /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig after building the libraries. You could also download the source from unstable and then use dpkg-source -x and dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc to build your own .deb's under your current version of libc. Only problem is I think that when you DO upgrade to potato dselect won't grab the latest versions of the packages you built since it will think they are the same version and then you will still have the versions built against the older libc. You of course could un-install and re-install the packages. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Kernal Upgrade and WINE questions
Doesn't VMware make wine obsolete? VMware is not Free software. Not only is it not free, but it costs quite a bit! And not only do you have to buy VMware, but you then ALSO need to buy your guest OS from Redmond. If you really need a full Windows setup, then VMware might be the answer for you, but it's not yet at the point where it can even make dual-booting obsolete for everyone since it does not support MIDI sound, joysticks, or 3-D graphics cards. VMware is kinda heavy on the requirements side, too (minimum 96MB memory recommended). If you just need to run an app or two, VMware is overkill. If you are ALLREADY dual booting windows 95/98/NT and need the windows environment then VMWARE makes some sense since you already own the windows licence. If you are constantly rebooting to switch applications then it makes even more sense. However if your goal is to replace windows with linux but want to run a few of your old windows apps it would make more sense to first try them under wine, or replace them with linux native versions (where available). With Corel now in the wine camp, I would expect the usability of wine to make a huge leapfrog in the next year or so. rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: debian installation woes
1: w95 (1 gig) 2: extended (the rest of it) 5: linux (1gig) 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) 8: linux swap (150 megs) There MAY be a problem with the boot sector crossing a 1024 cyl bound, not sure if scsi has this problem. Just to be sure I'd do the following... 1: win 95 2: /boot ext2 linux 10-50meg 3: swap 127 megs (no swap may exceed 128mb, but you can have more than one. Rummor has it that swap partitions work better if near the front of the disk) 4: extended 5: linux 6: ... whatever Other hardware: - realtek 8029 PCI ethernet card (the installer can't find the module to install this card in the installer) you will have to configure the module by hand. Use ne2000-pci What I did (installed off cd rom) was to NOT specify any configuration, and let it drop me into dselect. I selected the multi-cd method, put the SECOND cd in and did an UPDATE available packages, then put the FIRST cd in and REPEATED that step. Then I skipped the SELECT phase and went right to the INSTALL (all the required and recommened packages for a bare install were allready selected). After that I read the dselect manual to learn the keystrokes and then added stuff a little bit at a time. Once you have it figured out dselect ain't bad, and you'll wonder how redhat users can stand having to use RPM! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: debian installation woes
I thought that might be the case. However anyone installing debian 2.1 would still be using the 2.0 kernel and have the 128mb limit. Anyway few people would need that much swap anyway. --- Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about Re: debian installation woes 3: swap 127 megs (no swap may exceed 128mb, but you can have more than one. Rummor has it that swap This 128M limit is no longer true in 2.2.x kernels. From the Changes file in the kernel source documentation Util-linux (including mount) Among other changes made in the development of Linux kernel 2.2, the 128 meg limit on IA32 swap partition sizes has been eliminated. To use larger swap spaces, you need the new mkswap found in util-linux. You also need to upgrade util-linux to get the latest version of mount. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
scanner, ocr
I just picked up an old HP scanjet 3c and would like to use it under linux. I know that it is supported by sane/gimp, however is there any OCR software that will enable me to scan in a text document and produce an ascii file? Thanks. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: October GNOME for slink.
I've just compiled the lastest GNOME release (October GNOME) for slink deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ unstable main Joop Stakenborg wrote: All you packages end in -0.slink.0_i386.deb Does this mean this is a unstable slink october-gnome? Vincent Renardias wrote: As long as it hasn't been more widely tested, it certainly won't be considered as stable... I think the point is that users will presume that the `unstable' path in the apt-get URL refers to potato and not to `untested'. Why not rename your unstable directory to something like slink-compat ? Peter He already has another directory 'slink-update' with similar files. (unless this is a simlink). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??
I am running 2.0.38 on slink. I downloaded the kernel tarball and unpacked it in my /usr/src directory. I then renamed the resulting 'linux' directory to 'kernel-source-2.0.38' and created a symlink 'linux-kernel-source-2.0.38'. I ran 'make menuconfig' (but you might prefer make config or make xconfig) and then used the debian kernel tool 'make-kpkg' to build my new kernel. Then just use dpkg -i custom-kernel to install the new kernel. See the man pages and the readme file for make-kpkg for instructions on running the tool and for picking a name for your custom kernel. Use the epoch number system or you might end up replacing your kernel with an older one the next time you run dselect. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
recording from tapes to mp3's
I have some audio cassettes that I would like to save in mp3 format. What software can I use to record .wav files? I will plug my walkman into the line input of my sound card. I tried wavr but when I played back the result (with wavp) it was nothing but distortion! (I used the defaults except specifing input=line). I am guessing that I need some way to set the line input level both on the volume setting of the walkman and the mixer level to the sound card. Is there some way to pipe the sound file output into the player while recording? Problem is that I hear from the speakers anyway since the sound card is routing the line in to both the speakers and dsp during record (I think). Has anyone done this? BTW the windows sound recorder worked fine if I turned up the volume on the walkman ALL THE WAY, but would only record 60 seconds. (BOO HISS MS!) = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
xserver connection refused
I have an xserver for windows on my winbox and I can connect to my debian system by: start xserver on windows box... telnet 'url-of-linux-box' login: password: xterm -display 'url-of-windows-box':0.0 ... now running But this doesn't work the other way. I get a 'connection refused by host' message when I try to connect from one linux box to another. I guess there is a config file somewhere that needs to be modified to open up the xserver on the linux box to allow connection by a remote system. Where do I look? BTW same error message on RedHat (6.1) as debian (2.1) so this must be an XFree86 thing? Thanks. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Can Debian, Novell, Token Ring and DHCP all get along?
From: David Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to use Debian (Slink) on my work computer because of the free tools I'll need to do some Web page designing. Currently we use Windows NT and are hooked up through a token-ring network using DHCP and Novell's Netware/GroupWise. The basic question is: Will I be able to hook my Slink box up to the company's network and have access to the T1 Internet line and networked printers? I just installed Slink with these modules enabled: ncpfs, vfat, ipx, lp, psaux, bsd_comp, ibmtr (with io=0xa20, irq=0), ppp and slhc. During setup I left the netowrk connection broken: I left the hostname as debian and didn't configure exim. Looking at the NT IP Config program, this is the information I know. Could someone help me out to get dhcp working with this box? (I have read the dhcp and ipx HOWTOs) Hostname: (machine ID).chi.bcbsil.com (I'm not sure if I should give this out) DNS server: 172.17.248.1 IBM Auto 16/4 Token-Ring ISA Adapter Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0 Default gateway 172.17.1.1 DHCP server: 172.17.245.101 There is not information (i.e., blank) for: Primary WINS server and Secondary WINS server. When I log in each morning, I must provide my username and password, in a Netware login box, in order to hook up to the network. When would I provide this info for Slink? If anyone needs more info, I'll provide it. Any help would be greatly appreciated; I've tried doing this with Red Hat before, but I couldn't figure it out. Thanks, Dave Disclaimer: The views here are not necessarily those of this company. Actually, they're probably not. -- The NT network stuff is slightly broken from linux's point of view. I got the network to assign an ip address for my linux box by installing dhcp, but the linux box is denied acess to dns. In other words it dosn't know it's own address, and other computers on the net can't look it up by host name either! (You can find out the address assigned by the ifconfig command output). I guess one could write a bash/sed/perl script to issue the ifconfig and grab the ip address and stuff it into the /etc/hosts file so the machine would know it's own address. Our network firewall uses MS proxy to provide access to the internet. Unless your linux box can run this service it won't get past the firewall (is there an open source / linux version of ms proxy that will play on such networks?). By using samba I can mount the linux shares on the nt network and even have the nt machines print to the linux box. I havn't figured out why I can't go the other way. The smbhost program will let me send a popup message to the windows machines but that is as far as I've gotten with it. The problem may be in nt's use of encripted passwords. Pehaps a Samba guru might fill in the blanks here. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Pent. III
Is there any possibility of problems that would arise if Linux is installed on Intel Pentium IIIs? I haven't found any yet I have a potato/slink system running on a PIII 450 with 256M RAM (kernel 2.2.12) and its very smooth and stable Its runs samba, apache with mod_include, mod_jserv and mod_php, proftpd and netatalk as its main tasks. I have a PIII-500 cpu on a tyan s1830 mb that seems quite stable. Only problem I've had so far is that the built in USB HW dosen't seem to work under windows 98, I havn't tried the USB drivers under linux 2.2.x yet. (That would be a suprise if Linux handled the usb hw fine and windows didn't!) = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Debian Install Question
Hello, Please forgive me for this newbie question. I am new to linux and Debian. I have a question regarding installation. I have a 13 gig hard drive which I partitioned this past weekend so that I could dual boot Debian Linux alongside Windows 98. Using the fips program, I split my hard drive into two 6.5 Gig drives. Everything seemed to go fine. Last night I began my installation of Debian (slink). Very soon into the process, it told me that there was no linux swap partitions preset on my system and it told me to partition my hard disk to add linux native and linux swap partitions to my disk. So, knowing that I needed to create a linux swap, I did as it told me and sought to partition the /dev/hda drive. But then it gave me an error message saying Fatal Error: Bad primary partition. Then it told me cfdisk has failed while trying to repartition your disk. That may mean your disk's partition table is corrupt, or your disk is 'factory clean.' I may wipe out your disk's current partition table and run cfdisk again. Warning: You will lost any data currently on that disk. Are you sure you want me to do this? I would like to make sure I understand what has happened here. I think this all means that when I used Fips to partition my hard drive, that something went wrong. Furthermore, the only solution is for the Debian Installation program to clear the entire hard drive and start again, essentially wiping out Windows and everything running off of Windows. Is this correct? Is there anyway to fix this problem without erasing everything? Or am I wrong in what I think is happening here? THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR PARTITION TABLE DO NOT WIPE OUT THE DISK. IF YOU DO YOU WILL EITHER STILL GET THE SAME ERROR, OR END UP WITH ONLY 8.4GB OF USABLE DISK SPACE What you got is a bogus error message from cfdisk. Try running fdisk by hitting altf3 to get another vconsole and you will see that when you use the p command to print out the partition table that the starting and/or ending 'addresses' of the partitions are duplicated. What this means is that fdisk (and cfdisk) see different 'logical' and 'physical' addresses (chy,head,sect) for these partitions. Fdisk treats this as a warning, cfdisk treats it as a fatal error. The problem is that the 2.0.x kernels (which is what is on the boot floppy images) does NOT report the correct geometry for disks larger than 8.4gb. I ran into this problem also (I have a 17.2 gb drive in my machine). You need to know what the ending cyl is and give this to cfdisk on the command line, or to fdisk as an expert mode command. Then these programs will work correctly. IF fdisk or cfdisk are run under a 2.2.x kernel it will work 'out of the box' correctly. My solution was to do the partition operation using RedHat 6.0 and THEN abort the RedHat install, and THEN proceed to install debian (only NOT partitioning the hard disk since it already WAS partitioned.) Since I now know the correct c,h,s parameters for my disk (having discovered them under redhat) I can re-partition under debian by going off to another vconsole and then issuing the cfdisk command: cfdisk -C to set the correct cylinder size. Thanks very much! Bryan Walton = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Sound Config Probs
I guess the post 2.0 kernels handle this differently. I know that if you use 2.0.3x the isapnp runs AFTER the kernel inits built-in's but BEFORE modules are loaded. The best thing would be for the driver to do the pnp stuff itself which is how (I think) it happens in windows. I'll have to revist this sound config stuff when I move to 2.2.1x (I'm waiting for 2.2.13 since 2.2.12 STILL has some bad bugs in it. Come on Allen!) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I have compiled the sound support into my kernel for a SB16 card also using isapnp. A few points which I noticed. 1. you MUST not compile INTO the kernel, make sound drivers a module. After installing your new kernel [snip] Not always true. I have a Creative Labs AWE64 ISA PNP. I use kernel 2.3.18ac10 and the built in isapnp routines. I also compiled sound support INTO the kernel and it works fine. The kernel iaspnp inits the card at bootup and then a few processes later the kernel sound finds the card and it works fine. Then again, not everyone likes using bleeding edge kernels. --Ian Ehrenwald = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
problem with /dev/lp0
I use Debian with kernel 2.0.36. All information I can get from the BIOS of my Intel PC about the parallel port ist, that io is 0x278 and that the mode is normal (other possible modes: ECP, EPP 1.9 and EPP 1.7). So I say modprobe lp io=0x278. The printer is a HP LaserJet 4P connected trough a bidirectional parallel cable. Since printing trough magicfilter does not work, I tried to generate a file using gslj and send that directly to /dev/lp0: cat file.lj /dev/lp0 This takes about 4 seconds and produces no error. But nothing is printed and there is no error message on the printer. tunelp /dev/lp0 -s gives the following: /dev/lp0 status is 240, out of paper, on-line, error but the printer is not out of paper and displays no error. Also printing works if the printer is connected to a Windows NT machine. tunelp /dev/lp0 tells me that lp0 is using polling. lp1 and lp2 are not configured. cat /proc/interrupts gives: 0:8290233 timer 1: 35309 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 3:188 + serial 4: 73807 + serial 8: 2 + rtc 9: 116284 NE2000 13: 1 math error 14:4628478 + ide0 Why does printing not work? From what I remember linux assignes the printer at 0x3f8 to lp0, 0x378 to lp1 and 0x278 to lp2. This would mean that your printer is actually on lp2! It may be possible to override this. Windows and dos assign lp0 to the first printer port address found, so the actual address of lp0 under windows and dos depends on how many printer ports you have and at which addresss. Linux by default just assigns them by a hard coded address. If you have two printer ports and you use the lp=0xnnn command in lilo or when assigning modules this prevents linux from using any other lp port (as a printer). Maybe you had a cd rom connected to a parallel port, you would need this command to reserve the extra port for that (by NOT specifing it as a lp). In short, if your LP is at 0x278, try changing to lp2 and see what happens. Any comments welcome! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: problem with /dev/lp0
I assume you have only one printer port. LEAVE OUT the lp=0xnnn and let the kernel probe for the printer. Then look at what the kernel spits out, it will tell you where the printer is. Try dmesg | less to see it. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
compiling wine - xpm missing
After re-installing slink on a revamped upgraded computer (new cpu/mb, bigger hd, new graphics card, etc) I downloaded the latest wine sources (990923) and tried to build. Wine built ok, but won't run. I get the following message: OBM_CreateBitmaps Xpm support not in the binary, please install xpm and recompile. I have the following packages installed: xpm4.7, xpm4g, xpm4g-dev. The xpm.h file is found in the include path chain. (The configure scripts did NOT set the HAVE_LIBXXPM). I tried setting this variable in the configure generated header file and then wine did not link (having not found the required references). I was able to build wine on the previous install of slink, but I cannot figure out what library is missing!! Does anyone have an idea what package needs to be installed? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
wheel mice
Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse to work with netscape (4.6 or ) under linux? I just got a new wheel mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't gotten this to work under usb yet (will have to go to 2.2 to do that, and even windows 98e2 won't work with my mb's usb hw!), but as a ps2 mouse it's fine, I'd just like to get the wheel to work! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: PPP Host Configuration
I think you need to go into /etc/gettytab and establish a login prompt on a serial port for one thing. Install apache for another. --- Ramana Tadepalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cant get my Linux installation to behave like a server (http for a start). Where should I begin?. How can I get it to run a dial-in server to receive connects on the modem. Please help Ramana = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Best API for g++?
What's the best API (GUI) for writing/generating C/C++ code in Linux X Windows, in your opinions? I need some suggestions or recommendations from those of you who have used them. Two of the most popular these days seem to be Qt (C++) and GTK+ (C). I like Qt - the programs I create are easier to follow and understand, and C++ seems like a better way to build GUIs than C. It's also better documented than GTK+ (GTK+, last I checked, didn't have any documentation. From the looks of the web site, that's being changed), which leads to Qt being easier to use. Try VDK, which is a c++ wrapper around gtk++. There is also a vdk builder (like borland) which is a 'visual' development studio and gui front end for gdb. Both are now in version 1.0. There is decent documentation for VDK and a tutorial, vdk builder needs better doc's but the tutorial will get you started. I forget the URL at the moment, but deb's are available from h. moffet. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: partition this thing!
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:17:09PM -0400, Chris Ruvolo wrote: At 11:02 PM 9/26/99 +0300, you wrote: This is my first try at more than swap and /. tiny /boot, giant /home, right? Anyone feel like helping? I don't think a separate partition for /boot would be a good idea. /boot is the default location for the kernel. Having the kernel and init (usually /sbin) on different partitions is probably bad. I don't see how that would work unless you mounted them both on the first pass (could take some mucking around in your startup scripts, and generally not a good idea). Chris, would you please go into this? I have a seperate 30meg /boot partition at the start of my drive to ensure that lilo will ALWAYS be able to see my entire kernel. I have only booted the machine six or seven times (love linux! :) and haven't had any trouble yet, but I don't need to get into trouble due to this... :) having the kernel on a separtate small partition at the begining of the disk is a standard way to insure that the bios and lilo will be able to load the kernel even though the disk is larger than 1024 cylinders. This is the method that Redhat recommends in their install instructions. I did this on an old machine with a large disk drive and also on a new machine with a modern bios and a 17.2 gb drive. No problems. In my case I had a 50mb /boot. The only problem is that by default debian puts a simlink in / to the kernel in /boot and refers to the simlink in lilo.conf (which defeats the whole idea!) So I added a simlink in /boot to the real image (ie: /boot/vmlinuz-/boot/linux.2.0.36) and changed the image reference in lilo.conf to /boot/vmlinuz. Which BTW is how RedHat does it by default. Just make sure that /boot is listed in /etc/fstab. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Serial connection to windoze box
Used ethernet cards cost pennies and Windows 95 usually already has a driver for them. If you can track down some 50 ohm terminators, these rest is usually available for next to nothing. Make sure you get the kind of ethernet cards that have bnc coax connectors on them. RadioShack has coax cables with connectors on them already made up, and you can build your own terminators with 1/4 watt 47 ohm resistors. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
X for Win95
Date: I've been working on my Linux box here at work from my windows computer (easier to telnet into rather then move around and stuff). This is fine and dandy, but I've been told there is a way you can actually get the X server/KDE stuff to work remotly, through a Xwindow on Win95 or something like that. Ring a bell to anyone? See linux Gazzette #45. Get the MIX xserver for windows from microimages. It's on the SUSE distro under dos utilities. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: X for Win95
The 1.x version that is on the S.U.S.E. distro is free (as in free beer cause the source isn't available). For what I wanted to do this was good enough. For $25 I would try the 2.0 version though. --- Kristopher Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Scharf wrote: See linux Gazzette #45. Get the MIX xserver for windows from microimages. It's on the SUSE distro under dos utilities. BTW, the current version of MIX for Windows is not free, but it's only $25. http://www.microimages.com/mix/ I've been using it at work. It's not as nice as some of the more expensive alternatives, but it's good enough. (The Macintosh version is free.) - Kris = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
large hard disks (again)
I have posted this before, how to fdisk a 8.4gb drive. Problem was that with slink fdisk saw only 1024 cy, 255h, 63s for a total of 8.4gb. If I booted a RedHat 6.0 or Mandrake 6.0 CD (also stormix) their partition utilities (fdisk, disk druid, etc) would report the correct number of cyl's (2100) to give a 17.2gb total disk size. After partitioning with Stormix I stopped the install, and booted my slink cd and then installed slink (skipping the partition step, which was already done). This worked. Now if I run fdisk, it still reports the wrong(?) number of cyl's but does show the correct partition sizes (p command). It also complains about different logical and physical starting and/or ending cyl numbers for the last two partitions on the disk. However if I go to expert mode (x) and change the number of cylinders (c) to 2100, the p command now gives the exact same printout as fdisk under Mandrake or Redhat fdisk. So...why does fdisk get the correct size info from the kernel under Mandrake or Redhat? Can it be a difference between the 2.0.36 kernel and the 2.2 series? Or is it a later version of fdisk itself (BTW cfdisk and sfdisk behave the same way...) I now think the difference is in the 2.2 kernel. Any ideas? I now know I can partition under debian by giving fdisk the correct final cyl number. But I still had to use Mandrake fdisk to find this number! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
